Barker Joanne Barker

Native Acts (eBook, PDF)

Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity

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Produktbeschreibung

In the United States, Native peoples must be able to demonstrably look and act like the Natives of U.S. national narrations in order to secure their legal rights and standing as Natives. How they choose to navigate these demands and the implications of their choices for Native social formations are the focus of this powerful critique. Joanne Barker contends that the concepts and assumptions of cultural authenticity within Native communities potentially reproduce the very social inequalities and injustices of racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, homophobia, and fundamentalism that define U.S. nationalism and, by extension, Native oppression. She argues that until the hold of these ideologies is genuinely disrupted by Native peoples, the important projects for decolonization and self-determination defining Native movements and cultural revitalization efforts are impossible. These projects fail precisely by reinscribing notions of authenticity that are defined in U.S. nationalism to uphold relations of domination between the United States and Native peoples, as well as within Native social and interpersonal relations. Native Acts is a passionate call for Native peoples to decolonize their own concepts and projects of self-determination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393382
• Artikelnr.: 54817953

Autorenporträt

Joanne Barker is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is the editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introductions 1
Part I: Recognition
1. Of the "Indian Tribe" 27
2. In Cherokee v. Delaware 41
Part II: Membership
3. Of the "Indian Member" 81
4. In Martinez v. Santa Clara (and Vice Versa) 98
5. In Disenrollment 146
Part III. Tradition
6. Of Marriage and Sexuality 189
7. Origins 217
Notes 229
Bibliography 249
Index 277